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FOR DECEMBER 2007 A site mainly dedicated to Mediumwave Dxing |
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A list of common dx stations looking to move to FM include: 550 CHLN,
560 CHVO/ VOCM, 610 CHNC/ Frenchy, 780 CFDR/ KIX, 920 CJCH, 960 CFFX
(Now Lite 104.3), 1070 CBA/ CBC, 1140 CBI/ CBC, 1150 CHGM/ Frenchy,
1320 CKEC, 1380 CKLC (Now 99 The Drive" or maybe 9-8-9), 1550 CBE/
CBC. 960 Kingston, and 1380 are already carrying the FM service, which
usually signals that the end is near!! Any more?? Updated January 7th 2008: The logs have been neglected during the run up to Christmas, so here is a summary of what was heard from mid Dec until Hogmanay. Sorry for more of a scribble than a proper update. But all reasonable logs included. Monday 31st Dec: 0016 1510 WLAC, Morning quite good, and brought a poor id on Manitoba 1250, heard classical // on 950, but faded at the id time. Had Perseus rec at a range so that both 1250 and 950 would be included. Other stuff heard.. 1160 Chicago's Christian Talk, 1260 Radio Disney, 1290 CFRW MB, (good id @ 0900), 920 CKNX, 1050 ESPN NY, 1140 Miami Stn, 960 Lite 104.3, Sunday 30th Dec: 0800 WHAM 1180, Sat 29th Dec: Perseus files around 0800: 1630 KKGM, really good signal, 1650 kwhn, 1660 espn/ KRZI, 1690 WMLB, Tues 25th Dec, Xmas Day: 2156 had 1360 WDRC, 1700 WEUP, 1700 KVNS, 1650 R Sahlom, 1620 WTAW logged later on. Thursday 20th Dec: 0958 1140 LV Miami, 2150 1390 WEGP and WPLM, 2201 1470 WWNN FL, Unid SS shouting stn 1700. no id, prob FL. Sunday 16th Dec: Had visitor, so Perseus was used and checked later. 0800 - 580 CFRA, 640 CBC, 780 KIX, 800 CKLW, 920 CKNX, 830 WCRN, 930 WBEN 0900 - 1100 WTAM, 1110 WBT, 1170 WWVA, 1280 WNAM, 1360 WYOS, 1390 WFBL (1st log this season) 1000 - 980 CRUISE, 1580 CKDO, 1300 WOOD, 1260 WMLK, 1250 WSSH, Saturday 15th Dec: 0900 on Perseus. 1280 WFAU, 1180 WHAM, 1290 CJBK, 1330 WRCA, 1370 WDEA (never ided the station it mixes with sometimes), 1410 WPOP. Saturday night was Radio St Helena night, and I enjoyed listening to the show. If truth be told, I had the best audio and signal combination from my HF225e, a great little set. 11092 USB FRIDAY 14TH DECEMBER 2007: Inc Thursday night. Noticed that CKEC New Glasgow is now calling itself East Coast FM. This signifies that the AM will be closed soon. According to one report I read, in about 3 months. The CKEC web site has been redirected to the new pages. As I said Monday, a sad end to a real old fashioned AM radio station. At the "WEGP DX window", before BIG L comes back on at 2200, I had a WPLM id on 1390, fading with WEGP. I was up till late, around 0330, although nothing startling was heard on MW. Too busy working on a PC. Because of my late night, I was ill to rise and missed dawn. Recorded only about an hour and a half with the PERSEUS, including 0900 and 1000. Hd a chance to listen later on and the following good results were achieved. I have ids from 1360 WYOS / ESPN, 1360 WDRC Hartford, 1430 WENE, 1520 WWKB exc sig, 1300 Cleveland's Inspiration, 1290 CJBK, 1290 WRNI Providence, 1270 CJBC, 1270 WTSN (90% sure), I think iding as TSN. 1600 WWRL, 1230 WCMC Wildwood (70% sure), 1320 East Coast FM, 1480 WSAR Fall River, 1440 WJAB, which faded up on top of the jamming noise at the right time. Nothing new for me, but have some good IDs for the logs. The Perseus was recording 1200 - 1600. LF part of the band was gone during much of the time I was tuned in. TUESDAY NIGHT, 12th Dec. Added about 20 audio clips to the PERSEUS pages. TUESDAY MORNING 12th December 2007: High A and Ks make listening poor. Only common East coasters coming through. MONDAY MORNING 11th December 2007 (inc SUNDAY NIGHT DECEMBER 10th): I am being asked when to expect some audio clips from the PERSEUS rx on line. Soonest. The Perseus is like a PC. Doesn't save you time, but simply takes up your time!!! I will try and get some on line later tonight. Something which will be missed on the dx bands when it moves to FM, and closes it's MW service, is CKEC 1320 New Glasgow, a real independent radio station, with real programmes. They were also heard airing a 1949 old fashioned type radio play on Sunday night. Not much of this type of real AM radio left. Also ided WDEA 1370, WFAU 1280 (Not by call, but ann 1450 and 1280), WLOB 1310, OLDIES 13-10, CBC 1550, WDCD 1540, CJMR the voice of the city ided again on 1320, 0100 WHIC NY, The station of the Cross 1460, (New for me). Recorded 1510 again overnight. Gonna have to playback some of these to check for ids. Up by 0655, and 920 had CKNX dominant, Interestingly, Stornaway Coastguard was heard on 1743 with weather warnings. Band a bit noisy, maybe due to higher Ks earlier on. Also IDed this morning, 760 WJR, 1670 WTDY, 940 Montreal, and a chat show from David Letterman is it, on 670. No id, at the times I was tuned in. Had Classic Country BKV ID on 1470 at 0936 (WBKV as per logging yesterday), and WOOD 1300. Unknown CBS news on 1360 at 1004, sadly faded by id time. Also noted 1280 WNAM, 1080 WTIC, 1360 WDRC, 1170 WWVA, 1010 CFRB / WINS mix. The band never quite opened right up to the west this am. SUNDAY DECEMBER 9th:Sat night was complete chaos, visitors etc, so no dxing, but managed up at 0834 and left the Perseus recording, and went back to sleep. After checking, I think I made the mistake of leaving the NRD connected to the same antenna as the Perseus, resulting in less sensitivity. By all accounts I made the mistake of not staying up and getting some dxing done. But heard the following more unusual / less common stations in the recordings. 1290 WMCS Greenfield, Milwaukee, WSSP WI 1250, and the best one for me, 1310 ESPN/ WCCW Traverse City, MI. All Great Lakes area. WOOD 1300 and WNAM 1280 also hrd. At 1100 I had WBKW 1470 also in WI, with CNN News. Late opening. Heard the familiar classical music style on both 950 and 1250 a lot recently. MB stns, but so far I have never had any ids. Well done to Paul in Troon for iding them both recently!! SATURDAY DECEMBER 8th: (Late Friday night) Left 1390 WEGP on record, audible ECSS LSB, then changed to 1690, and finally according to the sleepy looking log, to 1300. Slept in, and missed the DX. Had KXEL 1540 at 0900, WOOD also at 0900, as was 3WT 1500. (Rec a Perseus file). FRIDAY DECEMBER 7th: (Late Thurs night) heard 1310 WLOA, WBBR 1130 was rock solid at 0048, WRNI 1290, 1170 WWVA, 970 WZAN alone on the channel, full call id for WQEW 1560, full call ID for CHIN 1540, 1600 WWRL, 1300 WOOD at 0235, and at 0203 I had an unusual French speaker on 1410. Unknown source. A station which is like some kind of Asian chanting, or as a dx friend from Scotland and I say, maybe "INJUNS", on 1600. Again unknown source. WUNR?? WVON 1690, The Talk of Chicago hrd at 0254, and WEEI ided 850. In the morning, I was ill to rise, after being up late, but tuned in at around 0745, and a lot of Latin sounding stations around. 960 still playing Lite 104.3, but AM can't surely have long to go. Radio Nacional id 580, prob Venezuala. WNAM 1280 ided 0830, AVR country 1420, Canadian, but no local call ids. THURSDAY DECEMBER 6th: AT 0040, SS coming through on 930kHz, Unid toth on 620 mixing with VOCM. Must check. 790 WAXY, 830 WCRN, 730 CKAC, 1390 WEGP. Thursday night, at 2151, I noticed WEGP was booming in on 1390. I sat on the channel waiting for BIG L coming back on. But it never happened. So the third Euro which is usually a blocker of dx, was off for a rest and giving us a rare chance of DX. It never came back until 0000. That was a nice break. 3 Euros off air in the one week is amazing. No IDs noticed from any other stations, although plenty present in the background. WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 5th: Wed night at 2300 brought me an ID on a very difficult channel nowadays of 1210kHz. Former common station, WCAU, is now called WPHT, and just made it for an id at toth. WWVA 1170 was coming in, as was 1630 KCJJ. WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 5th 2007: For the second night in a row a Euro was off air, noted at 0015 while tuning to 1380. The French QRM was off from 1377, leaving the freq clear for both CKPC, and former CKLC, now iding as "99 The Drive" (it may be 9-8-9 The Drive), which is the new station for their replacement FM service, signaling the closure of another Canadian MW stn. This time it is not not a powerful dominant station, but a regular none the less. I guess there was DX to be had in other parts of the spectrum, but I persisited with 1380, trying to ID the sports station that came up every now and again, Surely it will pop up during the night I thought. No such luck. Just as I turned in at approx 0220, the signal from France came back on, causing it's usual splatter. Therefore I had to nip back to the shack and change receivers, and decided to leave 1510 overnight, which included Roy Masters (Well heard in Europe from Radio Caroline). I was using the HF225e to record the audio on 1380. The audio response / quality from that set is probably the best of all my receivers. When there was no 1380 left, I switched to the NRD545, which I can control from the house, and therefore check when I waken to see if the band is worth getting up for. Unfortunately this morning I was rather sluggish to get up, because of being up to about 3am. Band wasn't overly exciting at 0810 this am, but the stations did linger, and a very late fade out was noted around 1030. Just popped in now and then, as it sounded like common East Coasters on their usual channels, rather than the band opening up to the West. TUESDAY DECEMBER 4th 2007: First contribution of the month due to the band conditions since late November. I was messing around in the shack, and tuned in around 0040. Heard 1680 Radio Disney, 1630 KCJJ, KVNS 1700 with new welcome English format. Just as I was turning in for the night, I noticed BBC Radio Scotland off air. At 0116, I had a few IDs from WGY 810. The pres F stn was also present in and out. BBC seemed to switch on lower signal transmitter first, perhaps Burghead, and then followed by usual off the clock signal of Westerglen. Unusual to hear a silent period from this lot. Do they really need to relay another station during the night I wonder?? Think on the money the BBC could save by switching off 1341, 882, and 810/ 585 at night. Anyway, also logged WTDY 1670 Madison, 1200 WOAI, 1300 WOOD, 1300 Cleveland's Inspiration, WTIC 1080, 1160 WYLL. Have a couple of Perseus files to investigate at 0800 and 0830. AM - 1060 CKMX Calgary was only just heard with the Classic Country. |